A traditional type of pottery is the Cochiti pottery has a white slip painted with flowers, animals and geometric designs in red and black. Nowadays Cochiti potters are better known for painted figures. Traditional Hopi pottery patterns come from the abandoned pueblo of Sikyatki whose potters decorated their work with plant and mineral based paints. Most pottery is the color beige or tan, some are white, and now there is a new red color that is now being used by a few potters. Splattering, stippling and line paintings were typical of their decoration. This style had almost been abandoned when, in the late 1800s archaeologists began to excavate Sikyatki, discovering their unique pottery. Nampeyo, a Tewa woman from the Hano Pueblo and her husband Lesou from Walpai were inspired by this pottery. Pottery is not like how we use them now they were used for cooking, eating, and storage.
Hopis made pottery and tightly woven baskets. They made jewelry from shell and turquois, pecked design into or painted them onto cliff walls.Baskets were used for carrying and storing.
Like their ancestors, today's Hopi artists work in a variety of media, including painting, basket and textile weaving, sculpting, and the making of pottery and jewelry. However, they are probably best known for their kachina carvings. Kachina carvings were originally made to be given as gifts to girls during ceremonies.
Hopi Pottery Video
This is a video about shelter and art. It has someone talking while it shows a lot a good pictures. You can understand the video a little better because of the talking
Pottery
Modern Hopi potters make their pottery for a traditional manner. The clay is hand dug on the Hopi mesas and hand processed. The pots are carefully hand constructed using the coil and scrape techniques their ancestors taught them. The paints used are from naturally occuring materials. For example, black paint is made by boiling Beeweed for a long time until it becomes very dark and thick. It is then dried into little cakes which are wrapped in corn husk until ready for use. It is called guaco.
The intricate and beautiful designs are painted free hand using a yucca leaf brush. The pots are then fired in the open air out on the mesa using sheep dung and cedar as a heat source. Prehistoric potters did not have domestic animals to provide dung, but modern potters prefer it for its rapid, even heat.
Some Hopi pottery is ceremonial in nature and not intended for public consumption. You will not find this kind of pottery for sale in reputable galleries and shops. Most prehistoric pottery has been taken from burial contexts, and the Hopi people find non-Hopi ownership of these pots offensive. It is better not to buy prehistoric pottery.
Creating hopi pottery is a risky and time consuming venture. Today the styles of pottery are changing and less and less people are making pottery. Hopi families gather clay from the ground. The clay is cleaned thoroughly because even one blade of grass could cause an explosion during the firing phase. Everything they make out of pottery, cups, vases, bowls, etc. is started from bottom to the top. The pottery is smoothed and polished and is left for 3-7 days so it can dry. Using yucca leaves and pigments from plants (mustard) and minerals (iron) the potter applies designs and patterns to the pottery.
Using a tool (typically of stone) that has sometimes been handed down through the generations, the artist creates a highly polished sheen to the pottery.
After investing all of their time and resources, the day of firing arrives. Perhaps the most dreaded day, the pottery will be fired at very high temperatures to harden. Typically, cow or sheep dung is used to create temperatures sufficient enough to harden the pottery. Hopi potters make money by selling pottery or making a trade.
Annotated Bibliography
"Hopi Potters." Hopi Potters. 1997. CompanyLongName. 28 Nov. 2008 <http://www.hopimarket.com/potters.htm>.This is an okay website for pottery. It tells a little bit about what they use to make pottery and who normally makes it but that's basically all. It's still okay though.
"Hopi Art." Hopi Art. <http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb155/is_/ai_n28885253>. On that page it talks a lot about about Kachina dolls. If you go to the bottom of that page you will see " 1, 2,3. " Press on the 2 and on that page it will talk about Hopi jewelry. Page 3 doesn't really have any information and if you really wanted information, I wouldn't click on "3".
"Guide to Hopi Kachina Dolls." Hopi Kachina Dolls. 9 Dec. 2008 <http://kachina.us/>. This website is a great website about Kachina dolls. It talks about how to make one, the tools they used, it's history, etc.
Santella, Andrew. The Hopi. Children's P. 4-47. On the pages 17-19 it talks about kachina dolls and how they were used. I used this book to learn about kachina dolls, what they were made for and about traditions with the kachina dolls. In this book on page 19 there is a good picture on kachina dools and all the pictures in this book are clear. They also showed very good pictures so you can understand the text more.
Hopi Pottery. Hopi Video. This is a great Teacher Tube video about the Hopis. It shows a woman in one slide using the coiling technique to make her pottery. This is the technique the Hopi Indians used to make their pottery (picture of pottery below). It also shows some of the Hopi houses and in one slide it shows a very cool Hopi hairdo. We used this video to learn a lot about the Hopis in general and the artwork that they made, especially pottery.
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Art
A traditional type of pottery is the Cochiti pottery has a white slip painted with flowers, animals and geometric designs in red and black. Nowadays Cochiti potters are better known for painted figures. Traditional Hopi pottery patterns come from the abandoned pueblo of Sikyatki whose potters decorated their work with plant and mineral based paints. Most pottery is the color beige or tan, some are white, and now there is a new red color that is now being used by a few potters. Splattering, stippling and line paintings were typical of their decoration. This style had almost been abandoned when, in the late 1800s archaeologists began to excavate Sikyatki, discovering their unique pottery. Nampeyo, a Tewa woman from the Hano Pueblo and her husband Lesou from Walpai were inspired by this pottery. Pottery is not like how we use them now they were used for cooking, eating, and storage.
Hopis made pottery and tightly woven baskets. They made jewelry from shell and turquois, pecked design into or painted them onto cliff walls.Baskets were used for carrying and storing.Like their ancestors, today's Hopi artists work in a variety of media, including painting, basket and textile weaving, sculpting, and the making of pottery and jewelry. However, they are probably best known for their kachina carvings. Kachina carvings were originally made to be given as gifts to girls during ceremonies.
Hopi Pottery Video
This is a video about shelter and art. It has someone talking while it shows a lot a good pictures. You can understand the video a little better because of the talkingPottery
Modern Hopi potters make their pottery for a traditional manner. The clay is hand dug on the Hopi mesas and hand processed. The pots are carefully hand constructed using the coil and scrape techniques their ancestors taught them. The paints used are from naturally occuring materials. For example, black paint is made by boiling Beeweed for a long time until it becomes very dark and thick. It is then dried into little cakes which are wrapped in corn husk until ready for use. It is called guaco.
The intricate and beautiful designs are painted free hand using a yucca leaf brush. The pots are then fired in the open air out on the mesa using sheep dung and cedar as a heat source. Prehistoric potters did not have domestic animals to provide dung, but modern potters prefer it for its rapid, even heat.
Some Hopi pottery is ceremonial in nature and not intended for public consumption. You will not find this kind of pottery for sale in reputable galleries and shops. Most prehistoric pottery has been taken from burial contexts, and the Hopi people find non-Hopi ownership of these pots offensive. It is better not to buy prehistoric pottery.
Creating hopi pottery is a risky and time consuming venture. Today the styles of pottery are changing and less and less people are making pottery. Hopi families gather clay from the ground. The clay is cleaned thoroughly because even one blade of grass could cause an explosion during the firing phase. Everything they make out of pottery, cups, vases, bowls, etc. is started from bottom to the top. The pottery is smoothed and polished and is left for 3-7 days so it can dry. Using yucca leaves and pigments from plants (mustard) and minerals (iron) the potter applies designs and patterns to the pottery.
Using a tool (typically of stone) that has sometimes been handed down through the generations, the artist creates a highly polished sheen to the pottery.
After investing all of their time and resources, the day of firing arrives. Perhaps the most dreaded day, the pottery will be fired at very high temperatures to harden. Typically, cow or sheep dung is used to create temperatures sufficient enough to harden the pottery. Hopi potters make money by selling pottery or making a trade.
Annotated Bibliography
"Hopi Art." Hopi Art. <http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb155/is_/ai_n28885253>. On that page it talks a lot about about Kachina dolls. If you go to the bottom of that page you will see " 1, 2,3. " Press on the 2 and on that page it will talk about Hopi jewelry. Page 3 doesn't really have any information and if you really wanted information, I wouldn't click on "3".
"Guide to Hopi Kachina Dolls." Hopi Kachina Dolls. 9 Dec. 2008 <http://kachina.us/>. This website is a great website about Kachina dolls. It talks about how to make one, the tools they used, it's history, etc.
Santella, Andrew. The Hopi. Children's P. 4-47. On the pages 17-19 it talks about kachina dolls and how they were used. I used this book to learn about kachina dolls, what they were made for and about traditions with the kachina dolls. In this book on page 19 there is a good picture on kachina dools and all the pictures in this book are clear. They also showed very good pictures so you can understand the text more.
Hopi Pottery. Hopi Video. This is a great Teacher Tube video about the Hopis. It shows a woman in one slide using the coiling technique to make her pottery. This is the technique the Hopi Indians used to make their pottery (picture of pottery below). It also shows some of the Hopi houses and in one slide it shows a very cool Hopi hairdo. We used this video to learn a lot about the Hopis in general and the artwork that they made, especially pottery.